Brant County now has 63 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with another eight cases on Six Nations.

The health unit, which releases the figures daily at 11 a.m. on its website, said the number rose only by two cases from Saturday and is up three from Friday. One week ago, there were 46 cases.

On Friday, Brant’s acting medical officer of health, Dr. Elizabeth Urbantke, said three people were hospitalized with the virus, one of them in intensive care.

She also said 29 of the 60 local cases were as a result of close contact with another confirmed case. Another 20 cases are suspected to be through community spread and 11 cases are travel-related.

Six Nations reported its first death related to the virus last Thursday, coming less than two weeks after the first confirmed case in that community on March 28, but it has not updated numbers since Thursday. Brant County confirmed its first virus death on April 2. No further deaths have been reported.

In Haldimand-Norfolk, the number of cases rose on Sunday to 131 with 13 deaths attributed to the virus. The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit reported Saturday that 13 people at Anson Place in Hagersville had died. The facility now has 51 other residents testing positive for COVID-19 and 30 staff who have tested positive and can’t currently work at the home.

Across Ontario, there were 21 more deaths recorded by Sunday morning, bringing the total of provincial deaths to 274. There are 7,049 confirmed cases in the province.

According to statistics, 103,165 people in the province have been tested for the virus. That was a jump of 6,844 tests conducted from Saturday’s figures to Sunday’s.

There have been 1,213 tests conducted at the Brant Community Healthcare System’s assessment centre although a portion of those tests have been repeated on the same people, generally healthcare workers.

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